Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

FORT WORTH, Texas Texans are firing back at a federal plan to prevent some Social Security beneficiaries from buying guns if they don't or can't manage their own financial affairs. Some say the proposal which would have the Social Security Administration comply with procedures already in place to prevent gun sales to drug addicts, felons and more is the latest move by President Barack Obama's administration to restrict firearm use. "You don't get to just take away a fundamental right," said H. Sterling Burnett, a research fellow based in Rowlett for the Heartland Institute, a conservative and libertarian public policy think tank. "The president is looking...

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FORT WORTH, Texas Texans are firing back at a federal plan to prevent some Social Security beneficiaries from buying guns if they don't or can't manage their own financial affairs. Some say the proposal which would have the Social Security...

ST. LOUIS The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod recently carried out what various members consider the equivalent of a modern-day heresy trial. The Kirkwood, Mo.-based church has 2.3 million members. The case pits two-term synod President Matthew...

Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly...

PTR, a small firearms manufacturer that moved from Bristol to the Myrtle Beach region of South Carolina, has repeatedly fallen behind on its rent and is now $73,000 in arrears, including late fees.
PTR, which makes semiautomatic rifles commonly known...

PLAINVILLE — About 500 well-wishers went to Plainville High School's Alumni Field on Thursday to cheer the 150 graduates as the sun set and swifts darted across the sky — along with a drone hired to film the proceedings.
Emily Duda, the valedictorian,...

ENFIELD — The school board voted Tuesday night against a suggestion to continue posting armed guards in the schools for one more year, just about a month after it voted to discontinue the program after the end of this school year.
Board members voted 6-3...

Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe, who was in charge of the department's response to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, announced Tuesday night that he intends to retire after nearly 37 years on the force.In a short letter to the Police...

The growing number of children and teens exposed to traumatic events in everyday life has forced the state's crisis intervention teams to respond to a broader range of behavioral and mental health issues, and those teams often serve as a bridge until...

ENFIELD — The town council, in a close vote Monday night, agreed to continue having armed guards in schools for another two years.
The issue now goes to the board of education, which must consider whether to continue or end the 2-year-old program....

Mental disorders surpassed respiratory problems and all other ailments as the leading cause of hospitalization in Connecticut in 2012 for children ages 5 to 14, teenagers and younger adults, according to a state health department report.
The report shows...

ENFIELD – On April 4, friends and family of Ana Grace Marquez-Greene will host the third annual Dance for Ana with Love Family Day Fundraiser in honor of Ana, who died in the Sandy Hook massacre in December 2012.
Ana Grace came from a very musical...

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly defended himself Wednesday night against a new charge that he misrepresented his record as a war correspondent, this time during the civil war in El Salvador.
Media Matters, a nonprofit organization that monitors...

GLASTONBURY — The board of education began a review Monday of policies that deal with electronic cigarettes, school security and vending machines.Every few months, the board updates various policies to account for recent legislation or deal with...

The inability to enact new gun safety laws after the Sandy Hook school shooting ranks as "the single failure" of his tenure, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a televised interview.
"The gun lobby simply won, you know?"...

Families of two of the 20 first-graders killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are suing the town of Newtown, Conn., and its board of education, alleging security measures at the school weren't adequate.
The wrongful-death lawsuit served...

The lawsuit filed Monday by victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting, seeking to hold liable the manufacturer of the Bushmaster AR-15 used in the massacre, will test the 2005 federal law designed to protect gun companies by using an exemption normally...

Connecticut quintet Kung Fu is a band you want to hear play cascades of notes, all night long. You want them to kick the crap out of their instruments. You also expect to dance.
On Friday, as part of its two-night Holiday Spectacular at Toad's Place in...

Parents of almost half the young children killed by a gunman at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, two years ago on Sunday have taken initial steps toward filing lawsuits tied to one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
For a...

In an article appearing on Today Parents, Nicole Hockley writes a letter to the mom she was before she lost her youngest son Dylan in the Dec. 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
"The tragedy changed every single aspect of your life,...

HARTFORD - A Venezuelan citizen pleaded guilty in Hartford to threatening Thursday in scores of telephone calls he made to people in Newtown after disturbed gunman Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people two years ago, including 20 first graders at Sandy...